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Thursday, February 26th, 2015

Majority Of Republican Primary Voters Want To Violate The First Amendment

Author:     Ian Millhiser
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     February 25, 2015 at 10:54 am
 Link: Majority Of Republican Primary Voters Want To Violate The First Amendment
Stephan:   We are heading toward a significant social crisis. The Theocratic Right, with its corporate sponsors is attempting to take over the country. This is modern Fascism. It is all fear based. These are the people with the overactive right amygdalas. They are not going to change, so there is only one antidote: People voting in massive numbers for the most compassionate and life-affirming option available to them.
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A national poll of Republican primary voters conducted by Public Policy Polling finds that 57 percent of these voters support “establishing Christianity as the national religion.” The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

Only 30 percent of Republican voters believe that Congress should not make a law respecting an establishment of religion, according to the poll.

The same poll also finds that 74 percent of GOP primary voters have a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush. Two-thirds (66%) do not believe in global warming, and a plurality (49%) do not believe in evolution.

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